Saturday, 27 December 2014

Rehearsal progress 1

This week we each looked into a different part of Jason and the Argonauts and how to tell it as a story, we split into 3 groups and each created a different piece based around apart of the story.

MY GROUP
My group did Jason’s story Colchis which is the island where he retrieves the Golden Fleece. We opened are part with a long hallway which will have king Aietes at his throne in the centre, his children Medea and her brother with two guards, Jason then enters with the Argonauts and asks for the Golden fleece. There is a clear power struggle as we have the guards and Argonauts ready for a fight, they all suddenly freeze and see Eros son of Aphrodite make Medea fall in love with Jason. Medea tells her farther to give them a chance. We leave this hallway scene and have the king sit side on to the next part in his throne. Jason has to do 3 trials to receive the fleece so for the trials we came up with the idea of doing them as a shadow where it shows what Jason faces and how Medea helps him overcome it. This is all we did for are piece as we had a short part of the story but I feel I did well as the whole shadow section is really creative and feel there’s a lot we can do with it.

1st GROUP
This group had the opening of Jason and the Argonauts where we have Jason’s farther on his throne and his servants around him. They then had Pelias come in to the scene and throw Jason’s farther across the stage to show him losing his power to Pelias. This is followed by Jason and his mom sneaking out while Pelias kills all of their follows. There next bit is where Jason helps the old lady across the river, for this they said they would like to do a movement piece where we see Jason battle the river and help her across, this hadn’t been choreographed yet but I was excited as I feel like it is a good idea for this scene. There last part was Pelias banquet which Jason crashes, for this they had Pelias in the centre and a load of people having a good time until Jason enters with one sandal on in which everyone laughs except Pelias as he know who’s this is. I liked this group’s work as they got a lot done for the opening and showed a lot of creative styles for the opening. I like the ideas they had for their movement piece where we create the river as I feel this will help get audiences attentions.

2nd GROUP
This group had Jason’s arrival at cyzicus which was the land inhabited by 6 armed giants. They had ideas for creating them by having one person on another’s back and another wrapped around them so there was a big creature with 6 arms we tried this and I liked how it looked but the only down side is that we would very little of these 6 armed giants on at once.  They opened there part with us rowing a big boat in a synchronised patterned , we reach the island in which we are greeted by the king who they created to be very flamboyant as they thought it would be good to get some humour in the play which I agreed with as it helps keep things interesting. I liked the ideas of the 6 armed giants as this is a nice thing but to make it better I feel we need to it in shadow so the 3 people can become 1 creature to fight and we can also play with levels to make them bigger and the Argonauts smaller. I also liked there flamboyant king as it’s a nice twist to the story that makes it are known and also will entertain the audience as it will be comedic

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